The Gentilesse of Chaucer's Franklin

Author / Editor
Carruthers, Mary J.

Title
The Gentilesse of Chaucer's Franklin

Published
Criticism 23 (1981): 283-300.

Description
The Franklin is a gentleman with old-fashioned but praise-worthy standards. FranT treats the fourteenth-century interdependent virtues of "trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie" (A46)--moral values in ambiguous wrappings.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.